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(Guardian) — The UN is to conduct an investigation into the plight of US Native Americans, the first such mission in its history.

The human rights inquiry led by James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on indigenous peoples, is scheduled to begin on Monday.

Many of the country’s estimated 2.7 million Native Americans live in federally recognised tribal areas which are plagued with unemployment, alcoholism, high suicide rates, incest and other social problems.

The UN mission is potentially contentious, with some US conservatives likely to object to international interference in domestic matters. Since being appointed as rapporteur in 2008, Anaya has focused on natives of Central and South America.

A UN statement said: “This will be the first mission to the US by an independent expert designated by the UN human rights council to report on the rights of the indigenous peoples.”

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April 23, 2012 1:19 pm

ImNoDhimmi

Does the farcical UN Human Rights Commission have no more pressing issues to investigate?

The massacring of Christians by muslims, perhaps? Or the rights of women, under islam?

serfer62

I can certainly see their priority over say Saudi Arabia, Sudan…oh, wait

Enough!

This must be a Joke

Dapandico

The U.N. will release a report that the Native Americans were mistreated by all previous Adminstrations and Barry’s has improved their lives in the last three years.

dba…vagabond trader

What precisely is their Constitutional power here in the USA?

Margie

Oh, great.

teacake

The UN has yet to eradicate child prostitution in the 3rd world. I pray Romney defunds the UN and kicks them out of the US.

Rufus

“This will be the first mission to the US by an independent expert designated by the UN human rights council …”

Only because Obama INVITED them to do so.

This is part of Obama’s Globalization effort; to have the UN’s authority supercede our own.

LEWFARGE

And WE PAY for most of this B S !!!!

big-pete

I’m sure the American Indian’s would love to have U.N. involved in their business. Look how well it has worked out for Africa and the Middle-East.

deez

Hey UN, start your investigation into the “plight” of Native Americans at Foxwoods.

Dapandico

The U.N. needs to go to the Blackfoot Reservation in Browning, MT. The Rez kicked out the Glacier County Sheriffs department from patrolling the Rez. Since the Rez has been in charge of “policing” themselves, the crime rate has risen.

case in point: Zach’s death serves as an enduring example of what Blackfeet Indian Reservation residents say is a criminal justice system calcified by a bureaucracy too vast and too far removed to connect to the communities it serves.

We created the UN, we should be able to dismantle it now that it has gotten out of hand and turned into a circus of muslims who only condemn Israel and the US and spend the rest of their time plotting ways to advance the caliphate.

fubar

The UN mission is potentially contentious,with some US conservatives likely to object to international interference in domestic matters

YA THINK?

Grass Mud Horsey

Go right ahead, UN- AFTER you investigate Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Mexico for the exact same thing.

http://oracle.com jefff

UN. The only organisation I despise more than Obama.

dba…vagabond trader

@deez:

A large chunk of the “Foxwoods” nation are not even Indians. Many non Indians were adopted into the tribe to plump up numbers to qualify for federal recognition.

ThomNJ

I don’t think Simon Kenton, Daniel Boone, Pontiac, Tecumseh, George Custer, Sitting Bull and a lot of others are available for comment.

logan51498

Was the UN around 125 years ago? Sorry pal,you are too late.Maybe you could dig up Custer,but I think he was killed by the Indians,along with thousands of other Americans across the Country.I am distantly related to said Custer,can I sue ?Once again,it was the Government that came in and started the Indian Bureau and things have gone down hill since then.If you are going to throw out all the current occupants of our government,for said offenses,I wholeheartedly agree.Otherwise,mind your own sorry business.

fubar

>>Many of the country’s estimated 2.7 million Native Americans live in federally recognised tribal areas which are plagued with unemployment, alcoholism, high suicide rates, incest and other social problems.

Maybe the indians can start funding the U.N. from their casino profits.

They won’t get far with this: the indians do not like outsiders prying in tribal business. And the ones that I know are fiercely patriotic. This is just more of Obama’s utter ignorance of America, and Americans.

Reverb Twin

I have made many trips through the Blackfoot Rez. There are signs when you enter that tell you that you are subject to tribal laws. But there are pro-Obama signs all over Browning. Go figure??

Enough!

UN General Assembly (GA) adopted a 5.16-billion-U.S. dollar budget for the United Nations 2010-2011 biennium

U.S. is the UN’s largest contributor….About $5 Billion

Xavier

@fubar

It’s almost like entitlement based societies don’t work.

SavoirFaire

Sounds like incest is very popular anwhere the tribal mentality survives (i.e., the Middle East, and other muzzie $hitholes). Maybe the remaining Native Americans should leave the reservation and get with the program. I’m sure they would do just fine. How would it have worked out if the Romans had established reservations for Native Europeans when they conquered those lands? Large groups of backward Celts and Gaulians(?) not adapting to new (and better?) ways of living, still living in sod hovels to this day, drunk on mead, with no electricity.

Margie

@ Teacake: I’m with YOU.

U.S. out of the U.N. and U.N. out of the U.S.!

oldguy

FUCK THE U.N. And don’t let the door hit you on ass on the way out of the US

GrumpyOne

When is someone going to investigate the UN for gross stupidity, incompetence AND corruption?

Taxpaying citizens want to know!

rinostat

The UN, a bogus, corrupt bottomless money hole, contemptuous of the United States at best, and seeking our destruction at worst. I strongly suspect the latter.

DanlBoone

dba…vagabond trader says:

What precisely is their Constitutional power here in the USA?

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I think it’s a diplomatic power. But, it’s global in structure. The globalism is a gradual voluntary deconstruction of national sovereignty.

Obama petitioning the UN to investigate human rights violations in Az is still absolutely blowin’ my mind. Like when something big explodes in space, but we still see it exploding for a kazillion years.

shades help

Dapandico

@Reverb Twin – In 1974 the beer trucks making deliveries in Browning, MT had a driver and a shotgun rider. The shotgun roder would guard the truck while the driver wheeled the beer into the stores.

spepper

Talk about a LONG OVERDUE DEFUNDING of a completely useless and PARASITIC organization–

Dapandico

Will the U.N. Small Arms Treaty also disarm the Native Americans?

DanlBoone

oldguy says:

FUCK THE U.N. And don’t let the door hit you on ass on the way out of the US

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yeah, but we’ve been saying that for how many decades now? What is reality in terms of the US disengaging from the UN?

zip to ~$5B annually is my guess

fubar

interesting.

will the UN be investigating the money laundering racket that involves John McCain and our very own dicktater in chief – barry ovomit (sorry i can’t type the n name

Tribes have essentially become conduits for money laundering, fund raising, and lucrative single source federal contracts for the industrialists, which they can justify by claiming minority preference.

The stimulus funds President Barack Obama directed to tribes for development, infrastructure, skating parks, among other things essentially allowed the recipients of tax money to enjoy tax-advantaged and unsupervised use of the money. As Elaine Devary Willman writes in Going to Pieces: The Dismantling of the United States of America, only 19 percent of the billions of dollars granted to federal tribal governments has been accounted to, reinforcing the perception among tribal members that “the money just disappears.”

The casino Indians in Mn are doing quite nicely, and even offered to pay the entire cost of a new football stadium that the billionare team owners are pressing the state to build for them.

Xavier

@dba

When Barry says, “We’re bound to follow the un’s findings and advice” then that’s it, we’re stuck with the bill. And I gua-ran-tee that if the Indians were a needed voting block he’d find a way to pay them off at the expense of U.S. sovereignty.

dahozho

And let’s not forget that the Mdewakanton Band paid for new roads, sanitary infrastructure, etc. in Shakopee.

Jim Anaya is, btw, a leftist, arrogant, conceited windbag. Anyone talking about the “plight” of anything should be given a wide berth and not taken seriously.

Reservations are some of the best evidence that communities/people made dependent on government become dsyfunctional and, well, dependent. Having said that, be aware that just as you may pity Indian people, so too they pity YOU. No lie.

Taking on the mantle of victim is always to the detriment of human dignity and independence.

The UN should clean its own house (or just shut down) and let everyone deal with their own problems.

vangrungy

perhaps a constitutional amendment is needed to remove the racist status of Indian tribes.

If we had a real president and not an affirmative action asshole, he’d be investigating the UN for “Human Rights Abuses Against Americans”. Another FDR legacy.. I hope he and “Uncle Joe” are enjoying the toasty fires of hell.

Chuck_Barry

I knew a girl that was from the Lumbee tribe, they have a much higher standard of living than other tribes, they live pretty much like middle class white folks do. Why? They didn’t buy into the “depend on the government to support you” crap.

GeorgeMasonIV

@ ChiefB

I remember that one!

“Tipi full of $#!+”

dba…vagabond trader

Last time I checked, we still have a congress that must approve international treaties or any other federal laws. That is, if they are up to doing their job anymore.

funneling the money any way the can

This called “Roll Out the Red Carpet Day” in Obamaland.

Spurwing Plover

UN IS NO ONES FREIND

KafirCrusader

Meanwhile the plight of the indigenous peoples of Europe who are being systematically replaced by the immigration policies of their OWN governments goes unnoticed. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper.

NoSleep

Al Jazeera put out a “documentary ” a yr or two ago showing the poverty american natives are forced to live in by the US.It used to be available on youtube.The reporting in the video made it sound like reservations were little more than prison camps.The UN probably forms their opinions from their muslim brothers.

Maybe the natives should make better deals with drug dealers,sex worker traffickers and illegals they are allowing to cross the border /hide on their lands.

We did the whole save the indians with millions of $ in the 70’s.They destroyed everything we built,pissed away the $ and whined for more.They choose to live in squalor .

http://iratetirelessminority.com Call Me Mom

The last time I checked, Native American lands are sovereign lands, ruled by the tribes. I am confused as to how the UN thinks they will solve the challenges faced by these tribal nations.

Blacksmith8✡

“Dear UN, piss off.”

THIS!

hoodaticus

Way to go U.N.

I, for one, favor getting rid of all the non-Native Americans :twisted:. While this would eliminate about 80% of the population, it would surely get rid of all the liberals, since the natives interbred primarily in the South, with people like my great-great grandparents.

The first invaders to be deported, of course, would be the U.N. Will the U.N. comment on their illegal occupation of our tribal lands in their report?

http://nosite/N/A Phillip

America is definitely guilty of human rights violations. However this involves everybody, not just Native Americans. I doubt the UN is reputable. I have been questioning the reputation of human rights groups for many years because they behave more like special interest groups and probably are special interest groups.

Hairless joe

Are you shittin me? With all the indian casinos the tribes can buy back the US.
And I have Indian ancestry on both sides of my family!

Barbara

WE DO NOT WANT UN HELP WE WANT YOU TO LEAVE US ALONE!!..DO NOT SPEAK AGAINST MY PEOPLE ANY OF YOU…WE ASK YOU FOR NOTHING WE WANT NOTHING FROM YOU….WE TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN DO NOT SPEAK OF OUR PEOPLE WITH DIS-RESPECT!!!!

Spurwing Plover

That are where the UN is would sure akea nice bird refuge with goose hunting allowed

derfel cadarn

Throw their useless asses out of the country and stop paying them ANY money. If this is the line they are going to take then they best include Spain.Portugal, Germany, France, Great Briton,Holland and any other country that colonized any territories in the third world. If we refuse to comply what will they do? Go to war with us. Without us they are beggars, tell them to fuck off and die.

ThomNJ

I would really, really, really like to vote for a guy who will get us out of the UN, and get the damned UN out of the USA. I hate them all as much as I hate hussein. And that is saying something.

SandyfromChesterfield

I would first start with letting the Native Americans own their own home and the land it lies on instead of the tribe owning it. This has been done on other reservations and they are prospering.

End_Wage_Slavery

Good. Somebody sure needs to. Time and time again the U.S. has proven that it is totally incapable of investigating itself for crimes against humanity. What happened to the American Indians was nothing short of genocide and ethnic cleansing. Well into the 1950s Indian children were still being kidnapped by the U.S. government and sent to boarding schools where they tried to brainwash everything Indian out of them and where they were abused for trying to speak their native languages. Indian reservations are hellholes that are about on the level of the ghettos the Israelis keep the Palestinians penned up in with no hope, few job opportunities, few amenities and lots of misery. (Maybe that’s why the U.S. and Israel are like 2 peas in a pod? Because they have so much in common with their treatment of indigenous peoples.)

And the U.S. needs to be investigated for more human rights abuses than those simply related to American Indians. How about extrajudicial assassination? Arbitrary detention based on the whim of someone designating somebody an “enemy combatant”? C.I.A. kidnapping? Torture? Keeping people in dog kennels in 110-degree heat for years on end? Wiretapping its own people? Placing tracking devices on people’s cars without a warrant? Launching an unprovoked invasion of Iraq and turning it into a carcinogenic wasteland thanks to depleted uranium munitions? Cancer rates in Iraq are skyrocketing (and what do you think “Gulf War Syndrome” is? Depleted uranium poisoning, that’s what.) What about vaporizing four entire city blocks of downtown Baghdad with JDAM bombs in an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Saddam Hussein based on the word of an Iraqi janitor? What about operating a torture school that teaches military officers of Latin American countries the most effective methods of torturing trade unionists and other dissidents? America had better thank its lucky stars that it pays about 22% of the U.N.’s operating expenses because if it had to play by the same rules everyone else is held to then it would have a LOT more to answer for.

dahozho

@ SandyfromChesterfield– Actually, it was called the Dawes Allotment Act, probably the single most destructive piece of Indian legislation ever passed by Congress. Ever heard of “fractionalization”? Or the Cobell lawsuit? The former is the actual underlying reason for the latter, and are a direct result of allotment. Actually, by and large, tribes which avoided allotment are in many ways better off than lands that are now a morass of complicated land status/ownership.

@EWS– do you sit up at night dreaming stuff up or what? Ever been to a reservation? I mean, really spent time, visited with people, etc. Your ‘blanket’ categorization of reservations as “hellholes” point to complete ignorance of Indian people. Forced boarding school education ended in the 1930s, when the gov’t began to encourage self-governance again under Collier.

Your slip into mindless fiction about the ME is on the same par– you’re just spouting the propaganda you’ve been fed and are happy to have. Get a grip.

Ikkinisppi

O K I have read with GREAT discuss Most of the comments.. First of all the Native Americans do NOT want U N interference.. But the way you people talk it is all their fault.. well let me tell you a few facts.. we are not treated the same as the white people.. we have little or NO rights… example: the first amendment Do any of you know that until around 1963 most of our religious ceremonies such as the SUN DANCE were outlawed!! I could (and may) right a book on the civil rights violations against the Native Americans.. My own Grandmother was taken as an infant from her people and given to the white man to raise..so even though I am about 1/2 Native I can not claim it..big deal.. My Grandparents on my mothers side were both half-breeds and were burned out of their homes in Mo Ill and finally settled in Or but kept their blood lines a secret..one so closely guarded that I never even knew of it till about 15 years ago when my mother passed away… the blacks think they had it ruff walk in my peoples shoes… yes some of our people are now doing well because of the casinos.. but many still need a lot of help because the gov won’t let them build a casino and have such strict restrictions on what we can and cannot do on or “own” land.. BUT and I speak for most of my people.. “U N GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR LIVES” at least until you can clean up your own.. As for Oboma he is the BIGGEST racist of all time..this is only meant to cause more hatred between our races.. stop and think people..I for one have not seen the racist hatred that is going on now since the 50’s ..that is what they want ..CONCUR AND DIVIDE is the only way they (the liberals) can take over this country..and sadly most of us are falling for it.. stand together and beat them.. Buy the way can anyone tell me why they call him the first “BLACK” president?? he is after all he is as much “WHITE” as he is “BLACK” it is just another way to cause separation of the people.. God forgive those who were so blind as to vote for him..as Jesus said “FORGIVE THEM FATHER FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO” and GREAT SPIRIT watch over all living things and protect us from this evil and STUPIDITY. that we may ALL walk the Red road of peace and happiness together one day.